On 7/23/14, 4:49 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > I don't believe there are any cases in which ksh interprets a leading > zero, at least not current versions. If you want octal you must use > either 8#num or typeset -ibase. Same applies to both zsh and mksh > AFAICT.
$ ksh93 -c 'echo $(( 010 ))'
8
Posix requires it.
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